Dr. Helle Hochscheid

About me

At UCR, I much enjoy teaching courses in the fields of antiquity, archaeology and heritage. I wrote Networks of Stone (Peter Lang, 2015), in which I explore the networks of patrons, craftsmen and traders that were involved in the production of sculpture in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC; and I co-edited The Value of Making (Brepols 2021) and Speaking the Past (Theran Press, 2021). My recent research has investigated network theory, labour specialisation, craft as an ‘owned’ skill, and marginalized groups in ancient Athens, in particular women and craftspeople, free and enslaved. I am co-founder of the Ancient Sculpture Association. Since 2021, I have been running the project Archaeology in the Classroom, which aims to integrate (world) archaeology to Dutch primary schools. This may seem like a new direction, but it brings my long-standing interest in the embodied power of objects from historical settings into modern education.

Publications

• Hochscheid, H. (2024). Foreign Labour, Common Ground: The Value of Craftspeople in Early Democratic Athens. In M. Flohr, & K. Bowes (Eds.), Valuing of Labour in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (pp. 289-310). (Mnemosyne Supplements; Vol. 481). Brill.
• Hochscheid, H. (2023). Owning the Stones: Craft Identity and Ownership in Classical Athenian Sculpture. In M. Bentz, & M. Heinzelmann (Eds.), Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Sessions 6–8, Single Contributions (pp. 81-83). (Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology; Vol. 55). Propylaeum.
• van Hal, D., & Hochscheid, H. (2021). Reeds to Riches: The Crafts of Making Ancient Auloi. In H. Hochscheid, & B. Russell (Eds.), The Value of Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production (Studies in Classical Archaeology; Vol. 13). Brepols.
• Brysbaert, A., & Hochscheid, H. (2021). Craft, Ownership, and Identity: Making, Thinking, and Being. In H. Hochscheid, & B. Russell (Eds.), The Value of Making Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production (Studies in Classical Archaeology; Vol. 13). Brepols Publishers.
• Hochscheid, H., & Russell, B. (2021). Introduction: New Approaches to Old Crafts. In H. Hochscheid, & B. Russell (Eds.), The Value of Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production (Studies in Classical Archaeology; Vol. 13). Brepols.
• Hochscheid, H., & Russell, B. (Eds.) (2021). The Value of Making: Theory and Practice in Ancient Craft Production. (Studies in Classical Archaeology; Vol. 13). Brepols Publishers.
• Hochscheid, H. (2021). Objects of Empathy. In H. Hochscheid, & P. Schultz (Eds.), Speaking the Past: Heritage, Discourse and Publishing in the Digital Age (pp. 65-72). Theran Press.
• Hochscheid, H., & Schultz, P. (Eds.) (2021). Speaking the Past: Heritage, Discourse and Publishing in the Digital Age. Theran Press.
• Hochscheid, H. (2020). Professionalism in Archaic and Classical Sculpture in Athens: The Price of Technē. In E. Stewart, E. Harris, & D. Lewis (Eds.), Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome (1 ed., pp. 205-229). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878135.007
• H. Hochscheid and M. Burke (2018). Spartaanse Rede, in J. de Jong, O. van Marion, A. Rademaker (eds.) Vertrouw mij! Manipulaties van imago, Amsterdam: AUP.
• H. Hochscheid (2018). Kijken in Marmer: Asymmetrie in de Griekse Beeldhouwkunst, Allard Pierson Mededelingen 118, 26-27.
• H. Hochscheid (2017). Not quite Pheidias. Status and labour specialization in Athenian sculpture. In: Greek art in context. Archaeologial and art historical perspectives. Oxford: Routledge, 142-155.
• H. Hochscheid (2015). Networks of Stone. Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens, 2015, Oxford: Peter Lang (here) with databases available here.
• Hochscheid, H. and R. Hamel (2015). ‘Shaping space: facial asymmetries in fifth-century Greek sculpture’, in W. Wootton, B. Russell and E. Libonati (eds.), Art in the Making: Approaches to the Carving of Stone (open access) with databases available here.

Reviews

• Hochscheid, H. (2020). Review of Julie van Voorhis, The sculptor’s workshop. Aphrodisias, 10. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2018. x, 117 p., 60 p. of plates. ISBN 9783954902682. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.06.23/
• Hochscheid, H. (2019). Review of Tonio Hölscher, Die Geschöpfe des Daidalos: Vom sozialen Leben der griechischen Bildwerke. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2018. Pp. 215. ISBN 9783946317166.  Bryn Mawr Classical Review. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019.01.08/
• Hochscheid, H. (2018). Review of M. Fullerton, Greek Sculpture. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. Pp. xxvii+ 351. 9781444339802/9781444339796. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 138, 293-294. https://doi.org/10.1017/S007542691800040X
• Review of Tonio Hölscher, Die Geschöpfe des Daidalos: Vom sozialen Leben der griechischen Bildwerke. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike,2018. Pp. 215. ISBN 9783946317166.  BMCR 08-01-2019, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019-01-08.html
• Review of M.D. Fullerton, Greek Sculpture. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. JHS 138 (2018) 293-294
• Review of F. Gherchanoc, Concours de beauté et beautés du corps en Grèce ancienne. Discours et pratiques. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions. Scripta antiqua, 81, 2016. ClR 67 (2017) 436-438
• Review of C. Lawton, Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora, Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora. Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture books, 27, 2006. BABesch 84 (2009) 232

Other publications

• Owning the stones: materiality, ownership and classical Greek sculpture. Paper at AIAC 2018 (Bonn/Cologne) panel 6.4, Making Value and the Value of Making (proceedings forthcoming in 2019: http://www.aiac2018.de/programme/sessions/#panel6-4)
• When in Athens, do as the Athenians. The Network of Late Archaic Sculpture. Paper at Tradition/Transition/Revolution in the Late Archaic Period: Contexts, Artists, Styles, Congress Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore: 12-14 November 2018, https://www.sns.it/en/node/7043
• Working the Makers or Making the Workers? Podcast of a paper at the CARC conference The Maker’s Share in Ancient Greek Art 26th September 2016 here.
• H. Hochscheid and M. Burke (2015). Retorisch Lijden: Het Geval Laocoön, in J.de Jong, Chr. Pieper and A. Rademaker (eds.), Beïnvloeden met emoties. Pathos en retorica,  Amsterdam: AUP.
• Carving at the Margins. Making low-end sculpture in fifth-century Athens. Netherlands Institute at Athens (9 January 2015).
• Bearded or Busted. Gender, medicine and ancient Greek sculpture. Department of History, Groningen University (10 December 2014).
• Assembling Art. Production and the Meaning of Sculpture in Classical Athens. Department of Archaeology, Utrecht University (12 November, 2014).